This is Cal

This is Cal

The
Experience
California Golden Bears
The University
of California
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Simply the best
here is no other way to aptly describe
America’s top public university. There is no other
way to describe one of the elite academic settings in the world – especially one that also includes
one of America’s most successful athletic departments.
The University of California blends the best of all
worlds. Overlooking the scenic San Francisco Bay
and ranked as the nation’s top public university by
U.S. News and World Report, the flagship campus of
the state of California also features an athletic program
that annually finishes among the leaders in the Directors’ Cup standings, which rates the overall success of
America’s collegiate athletic departments. Cal earned
its highest ranking ever in the Directors' Cup standings
for the 2010-11 season at No. 3.
Cal attracts what many believe to be the finest applicant pool in the United States featuring a diverse
student body population. The University of California is
divided into 14 colleges and schools offering 351 degree
programs and over 7,000 courses, with 48 of the school’s
52 graduate programs ranked among America’s Top 10.
Cal’s 52 programs among the Top 10 is No. 1 among
all universities in the country, as is its 32 “distinguished”
programs, as rated by the National Research Council.
University Library is ranked as the No. 1 public
research library in the country by the Association of
Research Libraries with over 10 million volumes in 32
campus libraries.
The current faculty features eight Nobel Laureates,
135 members of the National Academy of Sciences, 32
MacArthur Fellows, 74 Fulbright Scholars, four Pulitzer
Prize winners and 359 Guggenheim Fellows, more than
any other university in America.
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America’s No. 1 Public University By The Numbers
1
Universities with the highest
number of top-10 graduate
program
1. California
2. Stanford
3. Harvard
4. Columbia
5. MIT
Top Public
Universities
1. California
2T. UCLA
2T. Virginia
4. Michigan
5. North Carolina
Source: 2011 U.S. News
and World Report
1
Universities with the
highest number of
“Distinguished Programs”
1. California
2. Stanford
3. Harvard
4. Princeton
5. MIT
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16-1
351
Nobel Laureates
current and former
faculty members
Student-to-Faculty Ratio
Degree Programs
1
In 2008, the Association of Research Libraries ranked Cal’s
University Library as the No.
1 public research university
library in North America.
3,000
Service
The University of California is
the only school in the country to
have produced more than 3,000
volunteers since the 161 inception
of the Peace Corps.
Nobel Laureate Oliver Williamson
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Berkeley and
the Bay Area
BERKELEY
B
erkeley is a part of the San Francisco Bay Area major metropolitan area of approximately 7.5 million
people. The region is considered one of the
most beautiful in the world and includes the
major cities of San Francisco and Oakland, as
well as Berkeley, home of the world-renowned
University of California. Just south are San
Jose and the Silicon Valley, home to many
of the world’s most famous high-tech companies. The Bay Area also lies within easy
driving distance of the high Sierra
resorts of Lake Tahoe and Yosemite,
the Monterey Peninsula and the world
famous Napa wine country.
Everyone knows San Francisco,
a.k.a. “The City,” from the numerous
photographs, movies and television
shows that capture its magic and
beauty. It is a city built on a series
of more than 40 hills, offering panoramic views of every kind. The hub
of a nine-county region and the financial and
insurance capital of the world, San Francisco has a resident population of just over
800,000 and is situated on a 46.9-square
mile peninsula bounded by water on three
sides – to the west by the Pacific Ocean, the
north by the Golden Gate strait, and from
north to east by the San Francisco Bay. San
Francisco has been named the world’s top
city twice and the top city in the U.S. in 20
of the last 21 years by Condé Nast Traveler.
Cal will play its home football games at
San Francisco’s AT&T Park in 2011 while
Memorial Stadium in Berkeley undergoes
an extensive renovation and retrofit.
The San Francisco Bay is spanned by
two landmarks, the Golden Gate and San
Francisco-Oakland Bay bridges, the latter
which is currently undergoing a spectacular
renovation of the east span, and graced by
four islands: Alcatraz, Angel, Treasure and
Yerba Buena. The area is easily navigated
by car, BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit), bus
or ferry, making it easily accessible to all.
SAN FRANCISCO
Top Cities IN
THE WORLD
1. Sydney, Australia
2. Florence, Italy
3. San Francisco, CA
4. Charleston, SC
5. Cape Town, South Africa
6. Bangkok, Thailand
7T. Rome, Italy
7T. Vancouver, Canada
9. Santa Fe, NM
10T. Chiang Mai, Thailand
10T. Quebec City, Canada
Source: Condé Nast Traveler, 2010
Readers’ Choice Awards
Tim Lincecum
San Francisco Giants
AT&T Park
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OAKLAND
Langston Walker
Oakland Raiders
O.co Coliseum
L
ocated across the Bay Bridge from San
Francisco and a bordering neighbor
of Berkeley is Oakland, a city of just
under 400,000 people, jam-packed with
exciting attractions, stimulating arts and an
ideal climate. Oakland’s charm exceeds its
man-made wonders – tumbling hills rising
east above the city, vast forests, hiking and
riding trails, beautiful lakes and numerous
parks provide a natural escape for those who
prefer nature over an urban environment.
Just a 12-mile trip from San Francisco,
Berkeley is situated on 17.7 square miles
with a population of just over 110,000 people.
A study in contrasts, Berkeley is a small
town with a big city character. With its worldrenowned university, global population and
rich diversity of cultural arts, Berkeley reflects
and affects the rest of the country.
Six major pro sports teams – the NFL’s
San Francisco 49ers and Oakland Raiders,
the NBA’s Golden State Warriors, MLB’s
2010 world champion San Francisco Giants
and Oakland Athletics, and the NHL’s San
Jose Sharks – as well as six NCAA Division
I schools call the Bay Area home.
Sources: San Francisco Convention &
Visitors Bureau, Oakland Convention &
Visitors Bureau, Berkeley Convention and
Visitors Bureau, and the California Trade and
Commerce Agency.
SIMPly THE BEST
Frank Gore
San Francisco 49ers
Candlestick Park
• Money magazine chose San Francisco as “the best place
to live” among the 300 biggest U.S. metropolitan areas.
• Forbes.com ranked San Francisco as America’s “best
city for the outdoors” while American College of Sports
Medicine called San Francisco “the fittest of America’s
most populous cities.”
• World City Information recently named San Francisco the
third most successful city in the world after No. 1 New
York and No. 2 Toronto.
• San Francisco is rated the No. 1 city in the U.S. and the
No. 3 city in the world in 2010 by Condé Nast Traveler.
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California
Athletics
2008 Summer games Olympians
Nathan Adrian
Men’s Swimming & Diving
2008 Olympic Gold Medalist
Emily Silver
Women’s Swimming & Diving
2008 Olympic Silver Medalist
Michael Cavic
Men’s Swimming & Diving
2008 Olympic Silver Medalist
Natalie Coughlin
Women’s Swimming & Diving
11-time Olympic Medalist (2004-08)
Winning is a Cal Tradition!
2010-11 conference TEAM champions
VOLLEYBALL
Pac-10
woMen’s Crew
Pac-10
Men’s SOCCER
Pac-10
woMen’s WATER POLO
MPSF
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2010-11 team national champions
Men’s swimming & divinG
woMen’s swimming & diving
Rugby (also Pacific League champions)
2010-11 individual national champions
Cindy Tran
Women’s Swimming & Diving
100 Backstroke
Tom Shields
Men’s Swimming & Diving
100 Backstroke
Mike Morrison
Men’s Track & Field
Decathlon
Amanda Sims
Women’s Swimming & Diving
100 Butterfly
Nathan Adrian
Men’s Swimming & Diving
50, 100 Freestyle
Varsity 4+
Women's Crew
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Jana Juricova
Women’s Tennis
Singles
Damir Dugonjic
Men’s Swimming & Diving
100 Breaststroke
Freshman 8+
Men's Crew
Athletic
Facilities
Football
Lacrosse
Memorial Stadium
Rugby
Witter Rugby Field
Men's and Women's
Tennis
Baseball
Hellman Tennis Complex
Evans Diamond
Men's and Women's
Basketball
Men's and Women's
Gymnastics
Field Hockey
Volleyball
Maxwell Family Field
Haas Pavilion
Men's and Women's
Crew
Briones Reservoir
Edwards Stadium/Goldman Field
Men's and Women's
Crew
Softball
Levine-Fricke Field
T. Gary Rogers Rowing Center
Men's and Women's
Soccer
Men's and Women's
Swimming & Diving
Men's and Women's
Track & Field
Men's and Women's
Water Polo
Spieker Aquatics Complex
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Academic
Achievement
T
he Athletic Study Center supports
student-athletes in developing as independent, self-reliant and successful
young adults. As an academic unit within the
Division of Teaching and Learning, the ASC
encourages student-athletes to integrate,
participate and become vested members in
the academic community. A supportive and
instructional staff provides a broad range of
programs including advising, tutoring, career
planning, internships, research and professional training.
Athletic Study Center Staff
Advising Program
Tutorial Program
The Advising Program provides broad academic guidance in response to specific and individual needs of student-athletes at Cal. Students are assigned to advisors
according to sport. Academic advisors assist students in:
The Tutorial Program offers services and programs with
the goal of advancing student-athlete independence, selfreliance and integration into the academic community. The
program also promotes and enhances students’ academic
skills through individual and drop-in tutoring, study groups,
workshops and intensive special programs. In providing
these services, the ASC works closely with other academic support units on campus such as the Student Learning
Center, the academic centers in the Residence Halls, the
Graduate School of Education, and other academic departments on campus. Tutors have a professional commitment to education and undergo a rigorous screening and
training process that emphasizes working collaboratively
with students.
• Understanding, negotiating and complying with college, university and NCAA rules and requirements
• Selecting courses and majors according to individual
interests and goals
• Resolving personal issues unique to student athletes
As students approach graduation, advisors continue
to monitor the completion of requirements and support
students as they plan for graduate school and career
opportunities.
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Community
Service
I
n addition to pursuing success in fields of competition
and in the classroom, Golden Bear student-athletes
place a high priority on community and campus
involvement. Often coordinated through Bear SAAC,
Cal’s Student-Athlete Advisory Council, Bears are
engaged in many areas of service throughout the Bay
Area, including local community outreach programs,
such Read Across America, handing out sack lunches
to the homeless, supporting Special Olympics activities,
one-on-one tutoring with the Sage Mentorship Project,
and Jogs for Jill to raise funds and awareness for lung
cancer research.
“The passionate commitment that we have received from
these esteemed individuals has been a vital key to our
continued growth. Most importantly, the positive influence,
which they impart unto the youth of our communities, has
been simply amazing and impactful beyond belief.”
Michael Okinczyc, Former President of The Sage Mentorship Project
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Notable Alumni
Earl Warren
Gregory Peck
Steven Chu
Shareef Abdur-Rahim
– NBA All-Star, 2000
U.S. Olympian
Scott Adams – Creator
of Dilbert comic strip
Lisa Arce – Pro beach
volleyball star
Steve Bartkowski –
No. 1 overall pick in
1975 NFL Draft
Stephen Bechtel –
Kevin Johnson
Founder of world’s
largest constructional engineering firm
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto – President and Prime
Minister, Pakistan
Matt Biondi – Three-time Olympic swimmer,
winner of eight gold medals
Rose Bird – Chief Justice, Supreme Court of
California
W. Michael Blumenthal – U.S. Secretary of the
Treasury
Jerry Brown – State Attorney General, two-time
Governor of California, Mayor of Oakland
Thomas Cech – Chemist, Nobel Prize winner
Peter Chernin – Owner of Chernin Entertainment
and The Chernin Group
Leroy Chiao – First Chinese-American astronaut
Choon Kun Cho – President, Korean Airlines
Rachelle Chong – Member, Federal Communications Commission
Steven Chu – U.S. Secretary of Energy
Beverly Cleary – Author, “Ramona the Pest”
Natalie Coughlin – Winner of 11 Olympic
medals in swimming
Joan Didion – Author, “Play It as It Lays”
Brig. Gen. James H. Doolittle – World War II hero,
Medal of Honor recipient
Adam Duritz – Lead singer, Counting Crows
Maria Echaveste – Deputy Chief of Staff,
Clinton Administration
Joy (Biefeld) Fawcett – Member of three U.S.
Olympic soccer teams
Don Fisher – Founder and Chairman of the
Board, The Gap
Jennifer Granholm
Michelle Tafoya
Adam Duritz
John Kenneth Galbraith – Economist
Tony Gonzalez – NFL All-Pro tight end
Walter A. Gordon – Governor of the U.S. Virgin
Islands, U.S. District Court Judge
Michele Granger – Olympic gold medalist,
softball pitcher
Jennifer Granholm – Governor of Michigan
Andrew Grove – President and CEO,
Intel Corporation
Walter Haas Jr. – President, Levi Strauss & Co.;
Owner of Oakland Athletics
Philip Habib – U.S. Special Envoy to
Middle East
William Randolph Hearst Jr. – Newspaper
publisher
Marguerite Higgins – Journalist, Pulitzer
Prize winner
Susanna Hoffs – Lead singer, The Bangles
Lance Ito – Superior Court Judge, presided over
1995 O.J. Simpson murder trial
Ida Jackson – United Nations observer, founder
local chapter of National Council of
Negro Women
Jackie Jensen – 1958 American League MVP
Kevin Johnson – NBA All-Star, Mayor of
Sacramento
Edgar F. Kaiser – Founder, Kaiser Permanente
Jeff Kent – 2000 National League MVP
Clark Kerr – Chancellor, UC Berkeley
Jason Kidd – NBA World Champion, U.S. Olympian, NBA All-Star
Maxine Hong Kingston – Author, 1997
National Humanities Medal
Barbara Lee – U.S. Congresswoman
Yuan T. Lee – Chemist, Nobel Prize winner
Willard Libby – Physical chemist, discovered
Carbon 14, Nobel Prize winner
Tung Yen Lin – World-renowned civil engineer
Jack London – Author, “The Call of the Wild”
Wiley Manuel – First African American Supreme
Court of California Justice
Jerry Mathers – Actor, “Leave it to Beaver”
Brian Maxwell – Founder, PowerBar
John A. McCone – Director of CIA, Atomic
Energy Commission
Terry McMillan – Author, “Waiting To Exhale”,
“How Stella Got Her Groove Back”
Robert McNamara – U.S. Secretary of Defense
Mary T. Meagher – U.S. Olympic swimmer,
winner of three gold medals
Norman Mineta – U.S. Secretary of
Transportation
Gordon Moore – Co-founder, Intel Corporation
Julia Morgan – Architect
Hardy Nickerson – NFL All-Pro linebacker
Left to right:
Natalie Coughlin,
Tony Gonzalez,
Margaret Rhea Seddon,
Jeff Kent,
Alice Waters,
Chris Pine
California Golden Bears
William Randolph Hearst
Sadako Ogata – U.N. High Commissioner for
Refugees
Gregory Peck – Actor, Academy Award winner,
“To Kill a Mockingbird”
Chris Pine – Actor, “Star Trek”
Kenneth Pitzer – Chemist, president, Stanford
University
Robert Raven – President, American Bar
Association
Helen Wills Moody Roark – Winner of eight
Wimbledon championships
Aaron Rodgers – NFL Pro Bowl quarterback,
Super Bowl XLV champion and MVP
Glenn Seaborg – Nuclear physicist, Nobel Prize
winner, cofounder of Element 106
Margaret Rhea Seddon – Astronaut
Michael Silver – Yahoo! Sports sportswriter
William G. Simon – Director, FBI
Samuel Smith – President, Washington State
University
Robert Gordon Sproul – President, University of California
Leigh Steinberg – Lawyer,
sports agent
Michelle Tafoya – Sportscaster,
Monday Night Football
sideline reporter
George Takei – Actor, Mr.
Sulu on “Star Trek”
Roger Traynor – Chief
Justice, Supreme
Court of California
Eugene Trefethen Jr. –
President, Kaiser
Industries
Rex Walheim – Space
Shuttle astronaut
Earl Warren –
Helen Wills Moody Roark
Chief Justice,
Supreme Court of the United States
Alice Waters – Chef, restaurateur,
“Chez Panisse”
Jann Wenner – Cofounder, “Rolling
Stone” magazine
Lionel Wilson – First African
American mayor of Oakland
Pete Wilson – Governor of
California
Dean Witter – Founder, Dean
Witter Financial Services
Steve Wozniak – Cofounder,
Apple Computer, Inc.
James D. Zellerbach – U.S.
Ambassador to Italy